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OOFT 30 CENTE

DROUGHT CRISIS IN NANKING CHANGE

R 11, VAR AAXF THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930. BETAAN INTO PER ANNUM PART OF AN EAR RAIN OF FLOWERS THE UNEMPLOYED GLOUCESTER BLDG. FIVE ENEMIES OF

CUT OFF.

ON “JOHNNIE,”

TRIUMPHAL DRIVE THROUGH LONDON STREETS.

DISFIGURED MAN IN STRANGE CASE.

SAID TO BE A VICTIM OF BANDIT CRUELTY.

PLAN FOR RANSOM.

ATTENDS LUNCHEON.

London, Aug. 6. Enthusiastic crowds lined the three mile route of Miss Amy Johnson's drive to the Savoy Hotel where she was the guest of hon- our at a luncheon which was at The extradition case concern-tended by four hundred prominent ing the "Three Tams," members people. of a clan belonging to Taifu parish, in the Namhoi district,

She was accorded a tumultous

reception as she drove in triumph

PROBLEM.

OVER TWO MILLION

OUT OF WORK.

POSITION IN OLD COUNTRY BECOMES WORSE.

39,000 IN A WEEK.

London, Aug. 6. Unemployment in England has now topped the two million week to 2,011,000.-Reuter.

ACCIDENT.

WORKMAN FALLS FROM THE SEVENTH FLOOR.

BADLY INJURED.

CHINA.

NATION NOW AT THE CROSS-ROADS.

THE FUTILITY OF ARMED REVOLUTION.

SOUND ADVICE.

Another serious accident has occurred at the new Gloucester Building in succession to the previous one which resulted in three

killed men being

and another seriously injured.

It is disclosed in an official Police report issued this morning that Kwok Ngau (20), a girder fitter, was seriously injured by a fall from the seventh storey," the Take?," yesterday.

Shanghai, July 30, An interesting address on the subject, "What Road Shall We containing a frank

AMERICA.

GREAT CONCERN NOW FELT IN WASHINGTON,

OF PLANS.

MILITARY CONCLAVE.

DECISION.

MAIN OPERATIONS ALONG THE TSINAN RAILWAY.

GAMBLING IN GRAIN.

New York, Aug. 6. Encouraged by reports that the drought has disastrously affected the farm belt to the east of the Rocky Mountains, speculators in Wall Street and throughout the

SHANSI INACTIVITY. country neglected stocks and shares

Shanghai, Aug. 6. to-day and plunged wildly in the grain market.

Important Nationalist strate- Maize went like a sky rocket to gic plans were decided a season's record, while wheat and at a big military conference in

There was frenzied excitement in of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek

on

Kwangtung, whose surrender is through the streets of London and mark, increasing by 39,000 last accident occurring, at 3.30 p.m. criticism of "the blind activities oats hovered on the highest levels. Hsuchow under the presidency

being sought by the Chinese au- thorities on a charge of murder was resumed before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning,

the police had great difficulty in keeping the way clear for her car. Flowers were showered upon her all along the route.

The two million mark in un-

of government," was given at a The details given in the official employment was first reached in report in explanation of the austin at the Union Club of China 1921. the year in which the miners of the mishap state that the victim yesterday by Dr. Hu Shih, the In the procession through the throughout the country were on was engaged with others in fixing well-known reformer. streets she was accompanied by strike for three months. On the girders in position on the The speaker said, in part: Some of the startling allega- many of her own generation, June 3, 1921, unemployed totalled seventh floor level of the new "Before discussing which road to tionh that have cropped up from notably women who have gained 2,580,429.

Trade conditions sub-building.

take, we must first decide where time in the course of a protracted distinction in the field of sport and siderably corresponding decline standing suddenly, shifted through to go anywhere, there will be no sequently improyed with a con- An iron beam on which he was we wish to go. If we do not wish hearing, which up to date has en adventure. tailed on less than seventeen sit-

In the number of people out of the breaking of a wire binder. need to find a proper road to it.. Among those present was Sir work. tings of the Court, are as follow: Arthur Whitten Brown, who, with Mr. Hin-shing Lo. (Counsel for the late Sir John Alcock. flew

Three Answers. the three fugitives) has declared across the Atlantic for the that five of his witnesses were in-time eleven years ago. terfered with by the Chinese au- thorities, of whom one (Tam Kwai) has been tortured, he says, with red-hot irons and is still being detained by the Fatshan- Police.

first

Other Figures.

some

On September 26, 1927, the total number of At the luncheon at the Savoy 1,050,117 and a year later the unemployed was Hotel 1 large floral model of figure had increased to 1,295,234. "Jason". Miss aeroplane, was suspended over the slight reduction and on September

Johnson's Math The following year saw table. Mr. Esmond Harnsworth 23 last year the total figure was presided and Miss Johnson was 1,162,940, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (the Pub-presented with a cup and also the lic Prosecutor) who is conducting Daily Mail cheque for £10,000. the case for the Crown, on his part, has stated that two of his own witnesses were attacked withi

a bomb in Taifu parish during the period of the proceedings and are now lying seriously injured and unable to come down to Hongkong.

Part of Ear Missing.

Among those who paid eloquent tributes to Miss Johnson for her greit achievement were Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club.

There was an amazing demon- Yet another surprise was prostration when "Johnnie" replied Prosecutor with a few well chosen sentences. vided by the Public this morning, when he produced a Reuter cnd British Wireless. man with the upper rim of his left ear missing.

The query was addressed to Tant Yuen (the second fugitive) then giving evidence on his own behalf) in the witness-box, whether he know this man Tsoi King-ng by

name.

Tam Yuen declared he did not know the man, or that he took part | in his kidnapping and detention at the early part of this year for the purposes of ransom.

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CANTON STRIKE

ENDED.

COAL LIGHTERAGE RATES

INCREASED.

Canton, Aug. G.

Since that time, however, there has been an almost general weekly. increases, stemmed only by various short holiday periods. Turning to this year, the total on May 26 was 1.770,100 (an increase of over 600,000 in a year). On June 16 the figure had risen to 1.885,300, but there was a slight decline to 1,816,300 on June 23 this year.

On June 3, 1929, the first date on which a return was made after numbered 1,100,125. the general election, unemployed

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN CHINA.

Government Places Blame On Wang Ching-wel.

INTIMATION TO POWERS.

Nanking, Aug. 6. The Government is shortly communicating, with the Pow- ers in an effort to prove, from the evidence of intercepted wireless messages, that the re-. cent Communist activities" in China are attributable to Wang Ching-wei-Reuter.

This caused him

to lose his balance and he toppled over into the depths below.

South Does Well.

London, Aug. G. In the annual report issued to day by the Chief Inspector of His fall was arrested by the Factories and Workshops, it is body being caught on the level of pointed out that the flourishing the first floor, multiple injuries condition of trades in the South of being inflicted which led to his England helped to restore the removal to the Tung Wah Hospital balance of employment during in a critical condition. 1929.

The coal lighters' strike, which Employment in industry general- had been in progress here forly was far from satisfactory and The Public Prosecutor:--I put some time, Was satisfactorily many of the leading trades of the it to you that you were one of the settled on Monday after the intercountry experienced very difficult bandit gang who kidnapped this vention of the Kwanrtung Pro- conditions, working far below man, that you were present when vincial Government which set up their normal capacity. a bit of his car was cut off and an Arbitration Board.

Witness's Denial.

Witness categorically denied his association with all these doings, stating that on the dates in question he was at home in the Taifu Parish.

of

Arbitrators.

the

Flourishing Trades,

work,

AMERICAN BASEBALL

RESULTS.

PITTSBURGH DEFEATED BY

New York Detroit Philadelphia Chicago

Chicago

BROOKLYN.

National

4. Brooklyn

4 Chicago

5 Philadelphia

American

4. Boston

9 Cleveland

1 Washington

8 St Louis

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the Chicago pit where corn touched when the Nanking Divisional a dollar a bushel for May options. and Rates for other months were correceived instructions to adopt a Regimental Commanders respondingly high. Reuter's American Service.

defensive battle along the Tientsin-Pukow and Lung-Hai

Toronto, Aug. 6.

The Government has guaranteed Railways, sparing all their to cover the unsold balance of the efforts for concentration along 1929 wheat crop. It is believed the Tainanfu-Kiaochow Railway, that the wheat pool is already well where the Nanking Commanders covered as regards the 1930 crop-hope to continue with their Reuter's American Service.

former plan of a big flank "on- New York, later. slaught, following the announce- Further gloom has been cast ment of General Han Fu-chu's on the drought situation by a willingness to continue the fight.

The charge of plan is mainly tions near Taian and Tainarfu due to the strong Shansi fortifica-

which makes it most unwise to zones. fight through the Yenchow war

So far, we have heard three. answers to the question of our national objective. Dr. Sun Yat- sen, representing the Kuomintang, has said that the object of the report of the Department of Nationalist Revolution is to seek which up to the present have done Agriculture stating that areas China's freedom and equality well are now alarmingly dry. among the nations. The Young China Party (Chung Kuo Ching that the disaster affects widely The report confirms the fact Nien Tang) has declared that scattered regions and states that their movement aims to make the all growing vegetation is serious- nation independent and the peoplely affected.

Vessels. Commandeered. free, and to enable China to gain

The situation is regarded as so

The Nanking Government has her proper place among the serious by Washington that commandeered over twenty nations.

President Hoover may have to steamers in Shanghai and Nan- In spite of the recent split abandon his holiday plans and king for the transportation of within the Chinese Communist remain at Washington to deal 40.000 Nanking troops to Tsingtao Party, its two main factions, the with the crisis-Router's Ameri- which will reinforce the original Central or Stalin Group, and the can Service,,

forces under Generals Ma Hun- Opposition or Trotsky Group, may

kwai and Han Fu-chu. Washington, Aug. 6, still agree that their common Railway officials have advised Eight Chinese steamers belong- object is "to strengthen the pro- President Hoover that they willing to the China Merchant Naviga- letariat dictatorship in Soviet co-operate in any measures tion Steamship Company have Russia and to support a proletar- instituted to relieve the drought arrived at Tsingtao with the fan revolution in China." With situation.-Reuter's American Ser- Kwangtung Divisions. out attempting to discusa or vice. objectives, we may present what, criticize these three proposed

in our best judgment, ought to be the object of our national endea-

vour.

China's Five Foes.

PRINCE'S. VISIT TO BRAZIL.

H. R. H. TO HAVE PRIVATE

AEROPLANE.

message

Six other Nanking steamers are on their way with 10,000 training troops from Pukow, enlisted re- cently by the Government.

Shansi Inactivity.

last

2 country that is not first the Prince will have his own pri-vanced much along the railway 7 devastated by these five devils, vate aeroplaneth him on his during the sudden retirement of

the Han Fu-chu regiments What has capitalism done of South American tour. The air- 4Injury to the USA. or Japan? craft carrier Eagle is to be station week. In the brief period of a Why has it chosen China for ex. ed in Buenos Aires for the British few days General Han Fu-chu has ploitation? Is it not because we Empire Trade Exhibition, which abandoned a long trail of trenches. 2 have been so greatly weakened by the Prince will open in March, and being content to hold a few minor. districts in the lower section of

1 the five devils that we no longer

it is reported that she will carry the the Railway. Here was thought.

5 possess the power of resistance? Prince's plane, together with some to be a great opportunty for the

"Shansi troops, to

The various Divisions engaged in the coming flank attack will be under the new commandership of General Chlang Pei-ching who What do we want to destroy?

will take the place of General Han We want to destroy our five great

Fu-chu in the offensive. The Na- enemies-poverty, disease, ignor-

tionalist officer commanding the ance, corruption and civil war.

Tsingtao troops,

General Liu London, Aug. 6. This enumeration of our five great

Chen-nien, has also been instruct- enemies does not include capital-

The Brazilian Ambassador Ined to join in the war, thus bring ism because we cannot very well London has received a message ex-ing in more reinforcements to the talk about capitalism in China, pressing, on behalf of the Brazilian Nanking faction. sent to relatives with a demand Mr. Hsu Sing-chung, Commis-

nor the capitalist class because we President and the Minister for for ransom money, that you knewsioner of Civil

Affairs, to the Among the trades that flourish-

have only a few fairly well-to-do Foreign Affairs, their pleasure at that $900 was paid for such ran Provincial Government, acted as ed. however, particularly in the

New York, Aug. 6.

people, but certainly no capitalist the proposed visit of the Prince of

One of the most curious. feature Wales next year. The som, that you received a share of Chairman of

The following are the results of the class. Norfeudalism, because Board of South of England, were those baseball this money and finally, that you

The Board in the connected with motor cars, build-National and American Leagues to years ago with the formation of with which she could be honoured. strategy adopted by the Shansi matches played in the feudalism ended in China 2,000 states that Brazil will regard this about the fighting along the Tal- were present when he was ultim-Presence of the lighter workers ing, wireless, gramophones, elec- day:

vit as one of the most agreeable anfu-Kiaochow Rallway is the and the coal merchants of Can-trical.

the first Empire. Nor imperialism, ately released?

ton raised the rate of lighterage branches

engineering, certain

The Evening News states because imperialism cannot injure

that Commanders, who have not ad of chemical of coal for ships discharging in furniture, artificial silk, paper Pittsburgh Whampoa for coal for delivery in manufacture and sugar refining. St. Louis Canton from 48 cents per ton to The demand for the products of Boston 62 cents, and for vessels dis- charging in Canton harbour limits many of the miscellaneous trades from 23 cents to 30 cents per ton. carried on in the South, particular-

After

ly in and around London, was so some discussion these Mr. Lo objected to the inclusion terms were agreed to by both sides brisk as to cause in some works a these questions in cross-and, being put into force imme-shortage of suitable workers and examination, holding that the law diately, the strike was called off. to require considerable extensions

well-Our Own Correspondent. of Court procedure was

buildings.-British. known on the point that the evidence in

unproved an could not be produced in support of a charge that was being tried.

The Magistrate ruled against Counsel, stating that where the character of their own witnesses had been impugned the praɑaccu- tion was entitled to call this corollary evidence for the purpose of rebutting such Impugnments.

Mr. Fitzroy complained that his fog the strength of the Police witnesses had been accused of Force in Canton have been issued Kweilin city, in northern Kwangsi, It is reported that parts of murder and attacked in a thousand by the Bureau of Public Safety: were destroyed by fire by the one ways while they were There are in the force 398 rebels befors the entry of the giving testimony.

police sergeants, and 5,061 police Nationalist forces ander Colonel monstration when, after the race. suitable livelihood,. developed in-tsin-Pakow Railway, who was brut unlikely that Marshal Feng Yu-

In addition, the Police ID Shiu, Colonel Wong Yin-wan Interference with Witness. Department controls 1,978 munici and Colonel Wong Chap-man. At the conclusion of the evid-pul workers, scavengers etc.. and Although it is reported that the ence, Mr. Lo made his Anal sub-the Force own 5,020 rifles, rebel forces evacuated Kwellin missions, in which he contended The force is divided into patrol, before the entry of the victorious that the interference with his own traffic, fire and detective sections. troops and retreated to Linchow, witness, Tam Kwai, by the Chin In Canton the Force controls an nevertheless the Nationalist. ese authorities was uncalled for area of 75 square miles and is forces claim to have captured 'in and had deprived him of that divided into 23 sub-bureaux Kweilin 1,000 rebels. much valuable evidence which Our Own Correspondent.

and

case

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CANTON POLICE FORCE.

PERSONNEL TOTALS OVER FIVE THOUSAND.

Canton, Aug. 6. The following statistics regard-

men.

of

factory

Wireless.

INCENDIARISM AT KWEILIN.

REBELS DESTROY PART OF THE CITY,

Canton, Aug, G.

5 St. Louis Router's American Service.

KING'S YACHT WINS AT COWES.

"BRITANNIA" SECURES HER 200th VICTORY.

Loss.

WARWICK AGAINST

5 Therefore, even if it is merely thirty aircraft of her own.

for the sake of resisting imperial-

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sweep down to Several British aircraft manufac-Tsingtao and occupy the whole of ist exploitation, it is our imperaturers, who are exhibiting, are ar- Shantung. tive duty first to overthrow these ranging for demonstration flights |

One interpretation of the Shan-- five enemies.

daily while the Exhibition is in pro-si Inaction is their lack of men and gress.-British Wireless..

ammunition, and a determination to hold Teinanfu, fearing a sud- den Nanking assault from the Tientsin-Pukow Railway,

What Kind of Nation?

The destruction of the five devils is simultaneously the crea- tion of our new nation. What kind of a nation-will that be? The nation we want to build up shall be a peaceful, well-governed, gen- erally prosperous, civilized, modern, unified nation...

prosperous"

BRUTAL ATTACK ÖN

LADY.

MRS. HEARNE'S CONDITION IMPROVED.

Lull in Honin

The heavy rains during the past. London, Aug. 6.

week or so in Eastern Honan, along The King's racing, cutter Bri-

the Lung-Hat Railway

won her 200th race at Cowes this means a long period of peace, tasnia, with His Majesty on board, "Peaceful and well-governed”.

sectors, have resulted in many ot the Nationalist and. Kuominchun afternoon, in fine style, by three or good law and government, and The condition of Mrs. Hearne ed, thus hindering any big seale

Nanking, Aug. 6.,

trenches and dug-outs being flood- four lengths...

There was an enthusiastic de "Generally

proper health administration. the wife of the Engineer-in-Chief the King arrived at the Itoyal Yacht dustry and commerce, safe and con-ally assaulted by a Chinese soldier tacks on the Nationalists either means of the southern section of the Tier-operations. It is considered most hslang will launch any new at- Squadron, Enclosure-British Wire- venient system of communication with a bayonet, is much improved

and transportation, fair economic this evening.-Reuter. system and public relief work

"Civilized" means universal and free education, good and. sound secondary education, advanced university, education and a proper elevation and distribution in the The new military cemetery at Whampoa, which has been con

other phase of cultural life. "Mo- case. Counsel commented on the

structed by orders of the 8th

dern" means all. those political, evidence, and, arguing that his prosecution. He would, therefore, Chan Chai-tong, has now been Route Army headquarters, General

judicial, economic, educational, sani- clients having given a

tary, scientific and cultural Institu- satisfac commit the fugitives to gaol until completed, and a number of junks

London, Aug. 6.) tory account of themselves, they such time as an order came from have been chartered to proceed to

tions and equipments that shall Little play was possible to-day meet the derman coton life were entitled to discharge by the the Governor for their surrender Wachow, to take on board a large in the match between Warwickshire in a modern world.

to the Cantonese authorities. The number of coffins containing the and the Australians owing to rain.

It is estimated that a hundred His Worship disagreed, holding usual respite of 15 days would be remains of officers and men killed.

The Road t

thousand textile employees, repreDespite the strong Blangi forti The county team batted first and

to Take. that the evidence of the defence allowed for further proceedings during the Kwangsl campaign, for made 102 for the loss of three

senting fifty per cent, of the work|fications and harbed wire entangles had not been strong enough to which counsel might think fit to Interment in the new cemetery wickets. No further play was pos- and positive phases of our objecare now on strike. Over a hundred Nationalist attackers under Gan- Having defined both the negative ers of Roubaix, Tourcoing and Lille ments erected" "st - Talan, --the ow doubt on the story of the take.

PARA MOTA Gun Correspondent atten. alble to-day-Reuter

if Continued on. Pane 377 Maand, factories are: affected. Reuter di bend

should have been available for his

Court."

AUSTRALIA.

COUNTY MAKES 102 FOR THREE WICKETS.

TEXTILE STRIKE IN FRANCE.

HUNDRED THOUSAND WORKERS NOW OUT.

Roubaix, Aug. 6.

from the Lung-Hai Railway or Northern Anhui because of lack of men. On Tuesday, 30,000 Kuomin2. chun troops newly-recruited from the Kansu, Shensi and Honan' famine-stricken districts, arrived at Chengehow from Loyang train- Ing camp The now troops are equipped with big swords similar to those used by the "big sword bandits" in North China.

Taien Fighting...